New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-12
LITERARY NOTES.

~Crcddimus Jovcm Regnare Is tho title OF the nvc
paeo poem which Mr.. Lowell has contributed 70 INC
Forthcoming number OF The AHdnfN IL Is foi'i'0N " "
protest against inatcria'ishi
Cons and Daughters" the forthcoming novel by the
outhor OF Margaret Kent" Is story OF Philadelphia
life II opens with the meeting Of shakespearean go
cicty which said recall the humor OF the hrst cnap
ter OF Pckwick"
The clever Queen Of Rumnnia is making herself more
useful than modern queen generally apt 70 DC enc
has been accustomed time past to give lectures
privately In her palace to the young ladies' OF tae
families In Ruman,a These literary assemblies proven
10 ara cve that the demands for admission 10 'hch
grew Inconvenience that the Queen Thought vi ueh'e
ing her lectures In the high school to all pups WHO cure"
TO attcn Before her Majesty could do this however
abe had To obtain cguar professors diploma from the
Eine and the Minister Of Instruction This requreu an
examination, to which the Queen submitted. anu '
diploma having been won, not granted ny 'aVo'
Majesty will gin her lectures early In the Nc" 9 "
the high school for girls at Bucharest
The author OF that strange booR' MARX "u ,,
Autobiography" has In press another Voin"ic o"'
The Revolution in Tanners Lane. III" 4" s'u'' Vi WV
slums
The reviewer OF the London Times thinks tna' A'no
can fiction in latest phase shows an excess III '"o
ower NJ no,nting realistic detail the power OF grasp
inc what Goethe called Motives; that some OF the now
senior novelists very skillful In "o"'"e"' ou' ~
they work In the slightest and nimsest ma'era' ahu
mostly on subjects from town e he hinHs aso
tho, tho school, partly by Miss mur
fraa have great command Of and fresh detail es
pecay in connection with rural and ontlandish e out
arc decidedly in that inner logical STRUCTURE vi
which all great work IN fiction depends
The January number Of the The Southern b'eouoc p'o
sents an amusing sweeping protest against wn'
the author calls the systematic white Washing OIL ne
Pilgrim fathers treatment of the aborgnes Dy 'no
n iDU iusfa
tins condemnation is not much better.
Frank Haddock the son OF the Rev. George Haddock'
who was assassnated by liquor men In sioux ivy io
has written a life OF his father which Will shoru! oe
published by Funk Wagnalls
Among the burlesques Of the later "lDcksiey Han
comes this in The Pail Mall Gazette:
Comrades leave me here little. While st ME oo"h 'Hu
All vanity cries the Poet the Preacher cred OF oa
Others love the light did. but now prefer the darn
And have aught to utter then 10 othe oos n"''
Gone is all once believed in flats hills and hills are
Chaos Cosmos; Cosmos, Chaos cats are tigers tigers
Where the use of modern marvels marvels OF my early
Now I'm eighty despise thom Good is Bad and lies are
Pungc from Nineteenth spendor into medieval
For the ancient wrong better better far than modern
Thus began the Poets grumble-by degrees the sruoe
YolHo one has done his duty-You, nor You nor You'
Till the mighty storm arising the Poets discomfort
Englands worse than Sheol cried ne; anu W 0"eo
straight he went
Mr. Gladstone says that he has been not less impressed
with the form than with the substance OF this new
"Iocksey Hall and he adds: e Limbs Will grow SUN
with age but minds not always; we find here All unui
mnished that suppleness of the poet which enables MN
IN conform without loss OF freedom the stringent laws
of measured verse"
"Happy Dodd" clever story by Rose Terry COOKE
will shortly be brought out by Tcknor Her new long
novel is not yet ready for the press
The British Museum has lately acquired spiendid col
lection of japanese wOodcut ILLUSTRATIONS anu Pio'io
books-a collection which is and must remain unique "
which enables ordinary sghtseer 70 trace inc
growth and progress of series OF schools OF ART oorn
and fostered entirely independent OF European
and encouragement
Mr. obn Bicelow's forthcoming edition OF the Com
,lc,e Works of BENJAMIN Franklin will be limited 10
600 SETS published in ten royal octave volumes ine
edition Messrs Putnam announce. Is already In large
mart subscribed for The first volume VIII De delivered 10
subecribers before the end OF this month
He who hath sense of humor and an impartial spirit
win find some amusement in comparison Of the Harper
article ON 1.-The Literary Movement in New YORK ana
The paper ON Literary Log Rolling In the last NUMBER
M The Forum The keynote Of the latter may De iouhd
A., the authors declaration that something must De done
10 dam the food Of panegyrc with when common'
plare works are noated into circulation The unpreIu
diced observer can get good deal Of fun out OF the STU
alton.
m, Fo,,m maintains steadily the standard OF interest
which the first number established. The magazine 10
evenly entertaining Some of its articles valuable and
not one Is unreadaplc
The bones Henry Fielding, which rest In the Enssh
graveyard at Lisbon enclosed in pretentous stone
sarcophagus green moulded with and hearing on It's
face an elaborate Latin epaph commemora'ins the fame
and virtues OF the dead